People v. Scott

The defendant was convicted of robbery in the first degree and has appealed from the judgment of conviction and the order denying his motion for a new trial, one of the grounds of appeal being the alleged insufficiency of the evidence to sustain the verdict.

The essential facts disclosed by the evidence are as follows: About the hour of 10:30 o’clock on the night of July 15, 1926, one Max Pietsch, while walking along Tehama Street, between Fifth and Sixth Streets, in San Francisco, was assaulted by three men, knocked down, and robbed of a diamond stick-pin and a wallet containing $150 in…